Excerpt from Sermons Voured. In the bible the divine character is so plainly represented, that one would have thought, the believers in revelation would have been much better agreed, than they commonly have been. By some means or other, (to account for it fully is not in my power) Christians have differed very widely in their notions of the divine perfections. While some have represented him as being so good, that he never means to punish any pf his creatures, in a future state, for what is done in this that all sinners, let them live and die as they may, go immediately to happiness; others have represented him as being awfully severe, destining the greater part of the hu man race to eternal misery, though they should do every thing in their power to pre vent it as demanding of his intelligent of? Spring things absolutely impossible for them to perform, and then committing them to the flames for non-performance. They have com pared him, to a father, who seeing his house in flames, calls to his children, who are shut up within its walls, to make their escape they are sensible of their danger, and use every ef fort to escape, before the flames reach them but the door is shut, and locked, the father. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.